William Crozier, Interior, ca. 1990, Flowers Gallery

London Art Fair returns to London for its 32nd edition in 2020, recognized as a platform for connecting the best galleries from around the world with both seasoned and aspiring collectors, providing a unique opportunity to discover and champion outstanding modern and contemporary art. The Fair seeks to nurture collecting at all levels whilst providing expert insight into the changing international market. Sitting alongside the main Fair, curated sections Art Projects and Photo50 feature the next generation of artists, collectives and gallerists; showcasing increasingly innovative and interactive ways to engage with art. The Fair’s strong gallery line up is also complemented by an extensive program of engaging talks, panel discussions, interactive performance art, and onsite activations from the Fair’s partners. London Art Fair continues to champion regional collections through its annual museum partnership, which this year invites Southampton City Art Gallery to showcase their outstanding modern British and contemporary art. London Art Fair is an unmissable opening to the international art calendar.

We believe that great art provides a lens to see the world through. That’s why every year London Art Fair connects the best galleries from around the world with both seasoned and aspiring collectors, providing a unique opportunity to discover and champion the most outstanding modern and contemporary art of our time.

From art to people to ideas – London Art Fair is the place to make new connections, explore new territory and break new ground.

Whether you’re an art connoisseur or just culturally curious – come with an open mind and prepare to have it broadened.

We bring together galleries, artists, curators, collectors, critics and enthusiasts for one week under one roof – the result is creative exchange and collaboration.

Emily Crookshank, Principles III, 2019, Circle Contemporary

Art Projects

Art Projects returns to ​London Art Fair 2020 (22 – 26 January), offering a platform for emerging galleries to showcase contemporary art from across the globe. Now in its 16th edition, the section will bring together artists working across a broad range of mediums, including digital art, video, photography, textiles and painting.

Hosted as part of Art Projects, the ​Screening Room is an ​accompanying program of collaborative video and new media initiatives. ​Playtime​, curated by ​Pryle Behrman,​ explores the increasing commodification in our society and how this encroaches on our leisure time. The guest-curated themed presentation ​Dialogues returns this year, inviting paired galleries to exhibit artwork in conversation around the theme ​Talk! Talk! Talk!.​

Art Projects will feature eighteen galleries presenting works that reflect on the dominant social, political and personal issues affecting artists around the world.

Jessica Quinn, It’s time for her to write her own story, 2019, Kittoe Contemporary

Carla Kranendonk, Juliette, 2019, Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery

Laurence Stephen Lowry, Beach Scene, Duncan R Miller Fine Arts

MUSEUM PARTNER

For every edition, London Art Fair collaborates with a different organization to provide space in the Capital to showcase a significant regional collection. We are delighted to welcome Southampton City Gallery as our Museum Partner for 2020.

Photo50

Photo50 is London Art Fair’s annual exhibition of contemporary photography, providing a critical forum for examining some of the most distinctive elements of current photographic practice.

Laurence Edwards, Caravan, 2019, Messums London

Susan Gunn, Postcard V, 2018, Bo Lee Gallery

DIALOGUES

Dialogues invites pairs of galleries to display their artists in conversation with each other, showcasing the most stimulating contemporary practice from across the globe.

SCREENING ROOM

Hosted in the Art Projects Screening Room, is an accompanying program of collaborative film and new media initiatives.

TALKS & TOURS

London Art Fair’s program of daily talks, tours and performances provides a timely review of the art market today, trends in photographic practice, tips on building your art collection, artist’s talks and more, presenting the perfect setting for both the experienced collector and new art-world enthusiast.

Sacha Turchi currently lives and works in Italy and collaborates with various visual and sound artists. The interactions between individual and nature, body and psyche, constitutes the essential matrix of her research. (more…)

If Ryuichi Sakamoto had been born in 16th century Italy, we’d know what to call him: a Renaissance Man. But since he was born in Japan in the mid-20th century, we have to string together words like composer, musician, producer, actor, and environmental activist. (more…)

Since its creation 30 years ago, the Pinault collection has grown quickly to become a major presence in the contemporary arts. This exhibition focuses on the British artists present in the collection. Artists include Nigel Cooke, Jonathan Wateridge, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Toby Ziegler, among others.

Sinziana Velicescu’s work is a minimalist and abstract approach, a modern chronicling of a quiet land surveyor, completely separated of sentimentality. The publication of her series is a documentation of time, bracketed in images of framed surfaces of space.

Alec Soth’s work is rooted in the distinctly American tradition of ‘on-the-road photography’ developed by Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. From Huckleberry Finn to Easy Rider there seems to be a uniquely American desire to travel and chronicle the adventures that consequently ensue. (more…)